Jacob Buys's Q&A profile

• SQL Server Must you use 3rd party certs for mobile ssl replication?

  Hello, We are trying to setup ssl for a merge replication mobile application. We use our own internal certificate authority to generate ssl certs, but cannot seem to get the one for our mobile merge replication to work. I see some other post about using third party vendors but is this a must We are using .NETCF 2.0 WM 5.0. Thanks in advance. John John, The only certs I have had luck with under WM5 on a variety of devices are from Thawte and that is because WM5 ships with Thawte as a recognized CA. I have tried my own as well as Verisign certs with no luck. Darren ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System Problems when change the default port of "8080". how to config ?

  Hi. in my ex-post : http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=254699&SiteID=1&mode=1 I learn how to config with TFSReg. but now, when I really need to open my TFS to internet. I have some new issues. I now need to open the TFS Server with a non standard port (non 8080). I would like it to be "9000" for example. so I go to the IIS and change the web to use 9000 port instand of 8080. later I use the Team Explorer to open the team server. the reporting and WSS functions going fine, but not the Work Item and Source control. in the TFSReg post and sample. I only find a way to confi ...Show All

• Visual Studio Tools for Office I NEED URGENT HELP!!

  Didnt know where to post this really I have created a small spreadsheet in excel and need an auto executable main menu to be placed into it using visual basic. So that when i open the workbook the VB menu form is there. I've created the menu in the workbook but how do i get it to run automatically I need answers asap..this work has to be handed in tomorrow!! Thanx in advance Hi - this is the wrong forum, and I would suspect for VBA there are probably other forum sites that are more targetted that this one. I'll move it to the VB forum, at least. I guess if the work needs to be handed in tomorrow, you sho ...Show All

• Visual Studio Express Editions what chose C# or C++

  what chose C# or C++ for .net framework coding i would go for c# It is more comfotable to use and it is designed for the .net as opposed to the c++ which was adapted for the framework. ...Show All

• SQL Server SQL Memo datatype

  I hope I'm in the right forum I have a simple VB.Net application that records Engineering Change Requests.  Currently I'm using varchar fields to record proposed changes.  I'm using varchar since I don't know what the datatype that is equal to the MS Access Memo datatype. I did look in the help files with limited success.  If I remember correctly it said that you can use the Image datatype to store large amounts of data.  When I tried to creating a select statement in VB.Net with an Image datatype field, VB said that it can't handle that datatype. Help Thanks David Davis Banco de dados: ...Show All

• Software Development for Windows Vista FileWatchService and State Machine Workflows

  I have a question in regard to the FileWatcherService activity available for download and how to incorporate it with a statemachine workflow. I am developing a state machine that will react to files being dropped into a FTP store. Based on the file extension and name of the file, a new workflow instance will be started or a persisted one with be reloaded. In either event the appropriate state activity will run. The FileWatchService will need to react to files being dropped info the FTP site overtime. Using the FileWatchService example, once that workflow example completes (for one file) the FileWatchService does not react to new files. ...Show All

• SQL Server Displaying a List Horizontally

  Hi All, I'm new to reporting services and I need some help.  I've created a list which contains a photo and user name.  Currently, it displays all the information I want however, the list expands down the page in one column.  I would like it to expand across the page horizontally (4 columns) and then skip down to the next line.  Can someone tell me  how to do this using report designer    Thank you Hello, This does not work for me as well. I get the same error as described by Pumm3l. Can someone please provide a reliable answer Thanks. ...Show All

• .NET Development How to get a result from a query

  Hi there, I am studying VB for the very first time and in the project I am developing I need to check if the user that is trying to log in the database is a registered user. To do that I take the UserID and the Password from two textboxes: UserStr = Me .txtUserID.Text UserPass = Me .txtUserPassword.Text But I need to check this in the database. I already bond my datasource to the form and the following code it is suppose to check in the database if the user and the password are there. Me .CustomerIDDataSource.FilterExpression = UserStr And UserPass How can I get the result of that, I mean how can I know if the type ...Show All

• .NET Development Basic dataset question from a VS beginner

  Sorry if this seems like a dumb question, but I've searched for a few hours and figured maybe somebody could give me a simle answer. A dataset is a copy of a datasource stored in memory as I understand.  That being said,  how do I "query" a dataset For example, I have a form I want to use to allow a user to login to my program.  This form has a UserName textbox, a Password textbox, and a Login command button.  I also have a Dataset which contains a "User" Table which contains Columns "UserName" and "Password".  I want to ensure the username and password that are entered on the form are in the User Table to make s ...Show All

• Smart Device Development Calling managed code from native code using COM interop

  I'm trying to write COM wrappers around an existing C++ library so that it can be called from managed code, and for the most part I have been successful. The managed application can create COM objects in the native library and call them. I've been getting nothing but crashes, however, when I try to make calls in the opposite direction, and I'm wondering if there might be a known problem in this part of COM interop. What I've done is created a COM interface in the native code that is never actually implemented in the native code. The native DLL is then referenced by the managed project, creating an interop DLL. I then create a managed C# clas ...Show All

• Visual Studio Team System How can I programmatically Fail a WebTest?

  I am trying to validate a header value exist in a response. Since ExtractHttpHeader only supports checking for the existence of header names and not values,  I am traversing the test Context values looking for a specified key/value pair. I want to fail the web test if the values do not match. Great response!  Your recommendation was dead on.  Here is the code snippet used in Validate() for anyone else needing to validate response header values: for ( int i = 0; i < e.Response.Headers.Keys.Count; ++i) {   if (e.Response.Headers.GetKey(i) == HeaderStringParameterName) & ...Show All

• Visual Basic For - Next loop should wait for a button to be clicked

  hey i am kind of new to visual basic and as yet its a lot of fun if anyone can help me with this problem, i'll really appreciate it, I am running windows xp sp2. Problem: At the beginning of a program the user enters the number of enteries he / she wants to input using a combobx I am trying to run a For - Next loop in order to get these multiple enteries into an array using a single textbox. The problem is that i want the user to click a button each time he completes a single entry. and then the for - next loop should continue How do i code this into the program Sure An example of t ...Show All

• Visual Basic wordwrap

  In Vb .Net the Lable's property wordwrap was removed. How can I by-pass this Is there something else to use instead Thanks for any reply! YES, the word wrap property of a label in VB6 doesn't exist in VB.NET. Is there a workaround for it Thanks. ...Show All

• Architecture Biztalk server 2004 Data Access

  Can I use a Data Access tier without writing a adapter in biztalk 2004 for a receive location Well, perhaps you could provide more info about the issue, but you could expose data access tier with web services and use them to "speak" to BTS. ...Show All

• Visual Basic Code Snippets - Surround With

  Using VS2005 Professional. Have an issue with inserting "surround with" type code snippets. I can right click and insert a regular code snippet without any problem. However, if I select several lines of code in the code editor then right click I don't get the "Surround With" snippet option. Have tried using keyboard shortcut CTRL+K CTRL+S but VS2005 beeps and in the status bar says "surround with command not available". Can anyone help     Hi, We have recreated this issue and are now investigating its cause. If you want to be informed of our progress, please feel free t ...Show All